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Steve Benen
Steve Benen is a producer for “The Rachel Maddow Show,” the editor of MaddowBlog and an MS NOW political contributor. He’s also the bestselling author of “Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans’ War on the Recent Past.”
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Jacqueline Smith’s lawyer said the case is in response to “the government’s retaliation against her over the exercise of clearly definable First Amendment rights.”
The Republican House speaker abandoned all subtlety, promising to protect the White House from oversight if the GOP holds on to its majority.
Democrats knew that passing the housing bill would hand Republicans an election-season win. They did it anyway.
Stepping back, it’s worth appreciating the fact that the president is doing something inherently difficult: screwing up simple ceremonial duties.
The president’s poorly named Save America Act would do many things. Saving the country isn’t one of them.
What the vice president described was more an indictment of our twisted political culture and less a credible effort to downplay Watergate’s seriousness.
In 2016, Trump told Haitian Americans he wanted to be the community’s “biggest champion.” A decade later, the rhetoric rings like a cruel joke.
It remains an open question as to how and why Gregg Phillips was tapped to lead an important federal office in the first place.
